Season 1 - Week 5 Flashcards
ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast narrates tales of iconic and controversial moments in sports and games of the last 30 years. The third season of the podcast follows the life of an Indian-born American who lends his name to a form of a hot exercise performed at 40 degree C or more. His fraudulent life, replete with sexual assault allegations, was covered by Jerome Armstrong in the work Calcutta [Blank]. Give us either his full name or the eponymous hot exercise he developed.
Bikram Yoga OR Bikram Choudhary
Aged with 130 flowers and herbs, WHICH FRENCH LIQUEUR was first produced in 1737 by a certain order of monks in the Grenoble region? Named for the monastery of these monks, which in turn is named for the mountain range in the area, the liqueur comes in both yellow and green versions and has lent its name to a shade of both.
Chartreuse
WHICH CLASSIC STAGE ILLUSION, in its most
traditional form, involves solid metal rings
appearing to link and unlink, pass through each other, and form chains and other complex patterns? It may be so named because of one of its earliest performers, a stage magician named Ching Ling Foo who was active between 1854 and 1922.
Chinese Rings
[Also accept Chinese Linked Rings]
Dutch is the official legislative language in only
three countries, two of which are the neighbours Netherlands and Belgium. WHICH COUNTRY, the smallest sovereign nation in South America, is the third? Situated slightly north of the equator, the country is dominated by rain forests due to which most of its population lives on the Atlantic coast.
Suriname
The Manhattan Project was a research &
development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. Two types of atomic bombs were developed concurrently, a simple gun-type fission weapon and a complex implosion-type nuclear weapon, only one of which resulted in a successful prototype. WHAT WERE THE CODENAMES given to these bombs? The cover
story was that they referred to projects that dealt with the modification of a train coach for use by US President Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Churchill. Either code names will do.
Thin Man OR Fat Man
[Do NOT accept Little Boy, which was next
iteration after Thin Man failed]
WHAT WAS INVENTED in 1977 when Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith decided to stitch two jockstraps together? It became more widely known when in 1999, at the 1999 FIFA World Cup Final, American football player Brandi Chastain celebrated a successful penalty against China by falling to her knees and revealing the item to a global audience.
Sports Bra
In 1913, at the Epsom Derby Race, activist Emily Davison ran out in front of King George V’s horse and was instantly killed. WHAT MOVEMENT was Emily a part of, for which she registered this protest? Evaline Hilda Burkitt was another famous figure in the movement, who was force-fed by the government to break her hunger strike. We’re looking for a word, but you could describe the movement as well.
Suffragette OR Suffrage
[Accept Women’s Right to Vote; Prompt on just right to vote]
When Jennifer Doudna - the American Biochemist - was in the sixth grade, her father gave her a copy of the 1968 book The Double Helix, which she considered highly influential in her decision to become a scientist. WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK, a famously outspoken and openly racist biologist, who has at various times asserted controversial beliefs such as dark-skinned people have stronger libidos?
James Watson
WHICH CLASSIC STAGE ILLUSION was first
performed for a large audience by the British
magician P.T. Selbit in 1921? Selbit’s trick was
noticeably different from what modern audiences would expect, as his assistant was locked inside a closed wooden crate and could not be seen. The impression that the assistant could not evade her fate was created by ropes that were tied to her hands, feet, and neck, which were held by spectators from the audience throughout the trick.
Sawing a Woman in Half
[Accept any reasonable variation that explains the funda]
The suffragette movement was initiated by
members of the British Women’s Social and
Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903. Its formation was spurred by the legalization of women’s right to vote in WHICH COUNTRY - the world’s first to do so? This Southern hemisphere nation is currently led by a woman, as well.
New Zealand
Aaron T Beck, who passed away in Nov 2021, was an influential American psychiatrist. While still in training, he began to have doubts about the scientific basis of Freud’s open-ended talk therapy, which was then the gold standard of treatment in psychiatry. Along with Albert Ellis, WHAT DID HE DEVELOP that has today become the world’s most extensively studied form of psychotherapy?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
[Accept CBT]
WHAT WAS THE FAMILY NAME of the father-son duo of Indian tennis players, of whom the father reached the Wimbledon semi finals twice in 1960 and 1961, while the son reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon once (1986) and at the US Open twice (1981 and 1987)?
Krishnan
Stephen Sondheim is among the greats of 20th
century musical theatre, who passed away a few weeks back. Madonna’s 1990 number, Sooner or Later, was one among the five original scores written by Sondheim for a movie that would go on to fetch him his only Academy Award win. WHICH WARREN BEATY was this written for, adapted from a 1930s comic strip about the namesake detective who uses forensic science and advanced gadgetry to catch criminals?
Dick Tracy
WHAT LIQUEUR is flavored with the dried peel of the bitter orange laraha, a citrus fruit, grown on a Dutch island in the Caribbean Sea? Named for the island, the liqueur comes in two coloured varieties primarily - orange and blue. Most blue-coloured cocktails such as Blue Lagoon and Midnight Kiss use this to get its characteristic colour.
Curacao
In a Season 2 episode of ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast, the audio show narrates the story of how a Super-bowl winning coach and iconic broadcaster teamed up with EA sports to produce one of America’s highest selling sport-based video games. WHICH E-GAME IS THIS, titled after the commentator, which is made in partnership with the official league?
Madden NFL
WHAT IS THE TERM used to refer to the part of the bra in the center of the cups, where the underwire forms a little bridge? The component’s position relative to the wearer’s body is highly indicative of how well the bra fits. If it fits well, the component should touch one’s torso.
Gore
While Spanish is the official language of Peru, the second most spoken language family in the nation has a co-official status. WHICH LANGUAGE is this, spoken by its namesake people who primarily live in the high mountains of Peru and Ecuador, that may remind you of a French brand for hiking and camping apparel?
Quechua
Based on a Christopher Bond play, Sondheim
composed a musical that led him to a Tony Award win in 1981. The musical narrates the tale of WHICH DEMONIC CHARACTER who murders his customers, drawing from the penny dreadful fictional series of the 1700s? It was also adapted into a 2007 movie that fetched Johnny Depp a Golden Globe Award.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
[Accept Sweeney Todd]
Blefuscu is one of the two fictional islands, located in the Southern Indian Ocean, that first appear in a 1726 literary work. Even though the geography used by the author is severely off, he did use excellent maths to describe the size of the island’s inhabitants - describing them to be in a 1:12 ratio. Knowing all this, what is the other more famous island?
Lilliput
[DO NOT prompt on any mention of Gulliver, please]
In Britain during the First World War, WHAT was often given to men out of uniform by women to shame them publicly into joining the armed forces? While this became a propaganda symbol of cowardice, it was also adopted by members of the suffragette movement. The symbol comes from cockfighting and the belief that a cockerel sporting a [Blank] in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter.
White Feather
[Prompt on Feather]
While reading the book The Double Helix, Jennifer Doudna says she was aware of the casual condescension and sexism displayed by Watson when referring to a female colleague, who was responsible for the X-ray diffraction images that led to DNA’s discovery. WHO WAS THIS COLLEAGUE OF WATSON’S, often described as “dark lady of DNA” and “Sylvia Plath of Molecular Biology”?
Rosalind Franklin
This European multinational aerospace corporation manufactures and sells both aerospace products as well as aircrafts around the globe. 27% of the company is state-owned, with governments of France, Germany, and Spain sharing the stake. WHICH company is this, that makes the largest passenger airliner in the world?
Airbus
The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is an annual award presented to individuals who have “had an impact on American society in ways similar to” Twain. The 2009 award was presented to WHICH RETIRED STAND-UP COMEDIAN? He had twice previously refused the honor, stating that he was disappointed with the profanity used in the inaugural ceremony, but eventually accepted in 2009, only for the award to be rescinded in 2018.
Bill Cosby
WHICH CLASSIC TRICK or confidence game involves the dealer rearranging cards, usually a queen of hearts and two black jacks, and asking members of the audience to bet money and identify the target card? The trick is a short con, where the dealer is aided by multiple “shills” in the audience, and the mark usually has no chance at all of making any money.
Three Card Monte
The fictional country of Arendelle uses many actual Norwegian landmarks such as the Akershus Fortress in Oslo and the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, showing its modeling on Scandinavian culture. WHICH FILM FRANCHISE is set in Arendelle, inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen work?
Frozen
Zolgensma, the world’s most expensive drug
costing upwards of INR 16 crore, is a gene therapy medication injected into infants under four years of age suffering from a rare genetic disease. WHICH DISEASE, that results in the loss of motor neurons causing muscle wastage, does this drug cure?
SMA
[Also accept Spinal Muscular Atrophy]
